SAH doesn't support change,

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Registered: 05-08-2003
SAH doesn't support change,
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Sat, 08-26-2006 - 4:58pm

"SAH doesn't support change, it supports going backwards to the 1950's,"

Statement in a post below.

I wholeheartedly disagree. To me, SAH is a choice. How is that going back to the 1950s, when a lot of women didn't have much of a choice.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 1:10pm

No, my kids enjoy reading.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 04-14-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 1:10pm

you have me stumped. i can't fathom considering passing out keychains more important than so much as making so much as a single effort to help save children--"even" other people's children--from an environment that i would describe as hostile and frightening. there is no doubt in my mind which i would dedicate my energies to first and foremost.

of course it isn't your or any parent's individual decision what precisely should be done about the problem, but your role in addressing the problem would not be to make that decision but to encourage the actual decision maker(s) to make things right. my responsibility in my children's school lies in seeing to it that it is safe and comfortable for all children--not just my own. raising money for a new playground is part but not by any means the full extent of that, and that, i am glad to say, is not only an attitude that is shared by other parents whose children are in our school but something that is actually (perhaps ironically) written into our pto mission.

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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 1:11pm

Oh, you're right. We don't do that here.

Seriously, these little trinkets of crap are not that big, so someone would have to be inspecting the rain gutters a little too weirdly for my taste.

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 1:11pm
Hunh?
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 1:13pm

I could see how you thought perhaps she saw them in the gutters on the way to school, if she was walking her children.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 1:15pm

So true, so true.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 1:15pm
If adults weren't getting a reaction, would alot of them still buy it?
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 1:15pm
Rain gutters in MO most likely don't contain the dangerous stuff that rain gutters in the more dangerous NYC boroughs contain.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 1:18pm

Perhaps we're talkig about a different kind of rain gutter in a different part of the country? Where I live, they're grated, and this time of year in particular, when the leaves are coming down (I live in an old neighborhood with a lot of trees) leaves get washed down and cover the gutters and then stuff accumulates on top of them. When you rake or kick the leaves aside, you find all kinds of junk.

Maybe we should start a new thread on comparative gutters????

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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 1:18pm

"No, my kids enjoy reading."

As I said they did.

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